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1.		Contiki: The Little-Known Open Source OS That Rules the Internet of Things (wired.com)
		328 points by maaarghk on June 4, 2014 \| 79 comments
2.		U.S. Marshals Seize Cops’ Spying Records to Keep Them From the ACLU (wired.com)
		346 points by pavel_lishin on June 4, 2014 \| 102 comments
3.		Gittip, Year Two (medium.com/building-gittip)
		263 points by tshepang on June 4, 2014 \| 211 comments
4.		Judge Releases Information about Police Use of Stingray Cell Phone Trackers (aclu.org)
		251 points by wglb on June 4, 2014 \| 99 comments
5.		UK government's password checker sends plaintext password in the URL over HTTP (getsafeonline.org)
		226 points by markhemmings on June 4, 2014 \| 114 comments
6.		NFL players: height and weight over time (noahveltman.com)
		220 points by chwolfe on June 4, 2014 \| 127 comments
7.		"We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday." (antipope.org)
		208 points by cstross on June 4, 2014 \| 196 comments
8.		Running OS X Mavericks under QEMU with KVM (definedcode.com)
		196 points by kvmosx on June 4, 2014 \| 106 comments
9.		Why Using .* in Regular Expressions Is Almost Never What You Actually Want (mariusschulz.com)
		184 points by mariusschulz on June 4, 2014 \| 66 comments
10.		Sprint and T-Mobile Agree on Terms of $32B Deal (nytimes.com)
		172 points by aburan28 on June 4, 2014 \| 116 comments
11.		Peek Inside a Professional Carding Shop (krebsonsecurity.com)
		170 points by acdanger on June 4, 2014 \| 54 comments
12.		Untapped opportunities in AI (oreilly.com)
		164 points by dennybritz on June 4, 2014 \| 40 comments
13.		Show HN: zzzz.io, a free DynDNS replacement I created on the weekend (zzzz.io)
		156 points by kopf on June 4, 2014 \| 70 comments
14.		We Need Hardware Traps for Integer Overflow
		126 points by mmastrac on June 4, 2014 \| 109 comments
15.		Which English? (gameswithwords.org)
		121 points by colinprince on June 4, 2014 \| 136 comments
16.		The Decline and Fall of IBM (cringely.com)
		130 points by evo_9 on June 4, 2014 \| 110 comments
17.		PostgreSQL columnar store benchmarks on SSDs (citusdata.com)
		120 points by il on June 4, 2014 \| 36 comments
18.		Last Of The Navajo 'Code Talkers' Dies At 93 (npr.org)
		115 points by pdevr on June 4, 2014 \| 19 comments
19.		The day I left my son in the car (salon.com)
		108 points by klunger on June 4, 2014 \| 218 comments
20.		WebGL on iOS8 Safari and WebView (ludei.com)
		107 points by glasshead969 on June 4, 2014 \| 51 comments
21.		Product Hunt is the social news of tech products by influential people (techcrunch.com)
		108 points by dshanahan on June 4, 2014 \| 49 comments
22.		Swift is not (splasmata.com)
		96 points by mpweiher on June 4, 2014 \| 96 comments
23.		Sunsets in Google Calendar using R (hilaryparker.com)
		97 points by inmygarage on June 4, 2014 \| 10 comments
24.		Astronomers discover first Thorne-Żytkow object, a bizarre type of hybrid star (colorado.edu)
		96 points by edave on June 4, 2014 \| 11 comments
25.		The Architecture of Open Source Applications: LLVM (aosabook.org)
		95 points by AndrewDucker on June 4, 2014 \| 8 comments
26.		A Formula for Bayesian A/B Testing (evanmiller.org)
		93 points by bufo on June 4, 2014 \| 21 comments
27.		Show HN: 2048 in Swift (github.com/austinzheng)
		92 points by austinz on June 4, 2014 \| 34 comments
28.		Bitcoin is back: Price quietly jumps 80% (cnbc.com)
		89 points by mathattack on June 4, 2014 \| 95 comments
29.		Computational Neuroscience in Python (github.com/robclewley)
		88 points by alok-g on June 4, 2014 \| 7 comments
30.		Amazon Launch Event (amazon.com)
		86 points by p-pat-ni on June 4, 2014 \| 62 comments
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